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Reflect Your Personality With Feng Shui
Feng shui is a very flexible art that allows you a lot of room to express your own personality and style. With feng shui, you can follow ancient principles that help you create balance and harmony in your environment while still retaining your taste and the integrity of a room’s atmosphere. Feng shui brings out the best in the design choices you have already made by improving the flow of energy in a space. Feng shui techniques are not difficult to practice, and they can help you be better able to appreciate the beauty that already exists in your home by uncovering the potential for peace and harmony that is hidden within every space.
Feng shui works well within any other design scheme because it blends seamlessly into whatever kind of atmosphere you are trying to create in a space. This is one reason why feng shui is appropriate in a wide variety of settings. Because feng shui does not have a strict, dominant look like other aesthetic schools do, you can streamline any space from your office to your bathroom to your bedroom according to feng shui principles without having to change the basic design scheme at all. It is possible, for example, to practice feng shui in a Victorian-style romantic bedroom, or in a sleek office setting that has a contemporary feel. Feng shui is not about the specifics of how things should look, it is about optimizing energy flow and visual harmony, so you can use it in any room of any style.
Feng shui lets you create a new feeling for any area of your home without taking over your personal style, because in feng shui you get to use the objects you already have in order to create new, more harmonious arrangements. For example, feng shui often makes suggestions about incorporating certain colors, like scarlet, in specific areas of a room, but you can use almost any item of that color to make the feng shui decorating scheme work. This means that all you have to do is search your home’s inventory for anything that has scarlet, whether it is a vase, a pillow, a hanging picture, or even an attractive hardcover book, and move it to the right area. Feng shui teaches you to use what you have right now to better effect.
The fact that feng shui can lend extra power to the design choices you’ve already made means that feng shui is a great way to amplify how your setting reflects your taste. Feng shui reflects your personality at every step of the process from planning to the end result. Feng shui can help you bring out the best in your space, and in yourself. When you utilized feng shui to charge your environment with positive energy, you will be making sure that you and your unique style shine their brightest.
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Self-Assessment & Support: The Road to Recovery
We all know the many familiar problems that are caused by low self-esteem. Now what is the solution? How do we a obtain a positive self-image? It is by no means simple, but it can be accomplished.
The first step is accepting the possibility that our self-concept is invalid. Otherwise there is no possibility of any change. We have no motivation to make a self-assessment if we already know ourselves. Furthermore, why would we bother to search through a pile of rubble if we are convinced it contains nothing of value? We must have reason to believe that there is something of value to be found in order to make the effort. It is not easy to shed convictions about one’s self-image. If it is correct that the negative self-image begins in childhood, then a person who begins a self-assessment in middle age must be ready to let go of ideas that he or she has harbored for forty or more years. There is great resistance in relinquishing ideas that have been deeply entrenched for so long.
The second step is to make lifestyle changes that promote a more positive self-image, and there may be fierce resistance to this. We are creatures of habit, and most of us are reluctant to change established patterns. It can be extremely distressful to alter significant behaviors. The tendency to return to a familiar, well-established pattern because it is more comfortable often inhibits the drive to develop an altered self-image.
The third step is to be extremely patient. A self-image that has prevailed for the greater part of our life is not going to be replaced quickly. Changes in self concept are gradual and come in small increments. Relapses into the old self concept are frequent. It may take years before there are substantive changes in self-image. If these three conditions are satisfied, we can begin a self-assessment. Doing this alone may be of limited value. We have been looking at ourselves through distorting lenses and are not likely to see anything different if we look again. Nevertheless, some progress may be made, and there is no harm in trying to do it on our own.
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Setting Your Goals Should Not Be Complicated
Possibly the trickiest part of getting what you want in life is just figuring out what you really want! And yet it is certainly the most important part of all. Remember that setting goals does not mean that you are stuck with those goals. You can change them as often as you want to and feel that it’s necessary.
Remember also that setting goals does not mean that you have to pursue them through effort, striving, or struggling. It does not mean that you have to become emotionally addicted to achieving them. On the contrary, setting goals can help you flow through life more easily, effortlessly, and pleasurably. The nature of life is movement and creativity, and goals give you a clear focus and direction in which to channel your natural creative energy, thereby helping you to outflow and contribute to the world, which enhances your feeling of well-being and satisfaction in life. Goals are there to help you and support you in your true purpose.
Goals can be made in the spirit that life is an enjoyable game to be played, and one that can be deeply rewarding. They are not to be taken too heavily or seriously. At the same time, you must give them enough weight and importance so they are of real value to you.
It’s great to write your goals in the form of affirmations, as if they have already been achieved. This helps to achieve a clearer, stronger effect. In writing your goals, be sure to put down things that are real and meaningful to you, things that you actually want, not what you think you should want. No one else need ever see your goals unless you want him or her to, and this process requires that you be totally honest with yourself.
You may find that the very process of choosing goals brings up a certain amount of emotional resistance in you. You might experience this in various different ways, such as feeling depressed, hopeless, or overwhelmed at the thought of trying to set goals. Or you might feel the desire to distract yourself by eating, sleeping, or other activities. These emotional reactions (if you should have them) are clues to the ways in which you avoid getting what you want in life. It’s important to go ahead and experience these feelings and reactions, to go through them, and proceed with the process. Once you get into it you will find it of value. Then again, you may thoroughly enjoy the whole process and find it very expansive, fun, and enlightening. And you should! Just don’t make the choosing of goals too complicated.
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